The core team should come up with a list and announce the decision. SOON. Be firm. Say something like "in xxx months, support for these platforms will be dropped and we will start to remove that code." Encourage folks interested in supporting those platforms to maintain a fork. I don't care what you decide (I'm not likely to be affected) so I won't clutter the list with suggestion other than "put FIPS on that list." It is holding you back. But whatever. JUST DECIDE!
Call it version 1.1. Look at the LSB guidelines and nail down the ABI. Make structures opaque when possible and provide accessor functions. Within openssl itself use macros if you want. We (Akamai) are willing to help with that if you'll accept it. And who is on the core team, anyway? What's the difference between core and dev team? What's the difference between inactive and emeritus? Fix the governance; perhaps adopt the Apache model. Why do you need anything other than "committer" status? How does one progress? /r$ -- Principal Security Engineer Akamai Technologies, Cambridge, MA IM: rs...@jabber.me; Twitter: RichSalz ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org